Hello and congrats on completing lesson one. My name is Rob and I'm a teaching assistant for Drawabox who will be handling your lesson one critique. Starting with your superimposed lines these are off to a fine start. You are keeping a clearly defined starting point with all of your wavering at the opposite end. Your ghosted lines and planes turned out well. You are using the ghosting method to good effect to get confident linework with a pretty decent deal of accuracy that will get better and better with practice.

Your tables of ellipses are coming along okay. The real problem here is that you didn't draw through your ellipses for some reason while you did for the later exercises. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/11/drawingthrough You should be drawing through every single ellispe you draw for all of these lessons without exception. Even if you feel like you got it right the first time. Other than that you are doing a decent job focusing on consistent smooth ellipse shapes. This is carried over nicely into your ellipses in planes. It's great that you aren't overly concerned with accuracy and are instead focused on getting smooth ellipse shapes. Although accuracy is our end goal it can't really be forced and tends to come with mileage and consistent practice more than anything else. It's good to see that you are drawing through your ellipses now but on that note try and keep your draw throughs to 2 - 3 times max. I'm seeing 4+ times on some of these and it's getting a bit messy. Your ellipses in funnels are looking fine although you still having that issue of drawing through a bit too much on some of these. One thing you could have done with these is start with a narrower degree ellipse in the center and then widen the degrees of the ellipses as they move outwards in the funnel. Please check the example here. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/step3. Your ellipses are off to a good start but since you didn't follow directions correctly on the table of ellipses pages I'd like you to do one more page of these as a revision and make sure you draw through all of your ellipses.

The plotted perspective looks great although I do want to mention your added hatching here. Adding hatching is fine but you should treating every line you put down the same while you are doing these lessons. Every line should be thought about and never scribbled in randomly. Make sure you are ghosting every line you put down and drawing from your shoulder with confidence. Also make your hatch lines shouldn't be floating in the middle of a plane but connecting from end to end. Your rough perspective exercises turned out pretty good. You are getting a mix of confident linework here along with some wobble creeping back into some of your lines. Once again this is probably happening because you are more concerned with accuracy now that you are constructing boxes and you are slowing down your stroke to compensate. The other possibility is that you have reverted back to drawing from your wrist for some of these lines. Just something to keep an eye on. You should be drawing from your shoulder for basically every line you draw even shorter ones. The wrist should be reserved for detail work only. You are doing a good job extending the lines back on your boxes to check your work. As you can see some of your perspective estimations were quite off but that will become more intuitive with practice.

Your rotated box exercise turned out pretty well. I like that you drew this nice and big as that really helps when dealing with complex spatial problems. You also did a good job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps narrow and consistent. You are running into a pretty common issue of not actually rotating your boxes in some cases (more noticeable on the top and right side) but instead simply drawing them moving back in perspective. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/notrotating This is a great exercise to come back to after a few lessons to see how much your spatial thinking ability has improved. Your organic perspective exercises are looking pretty good. You seem to be getting comfortable using the ghosting method and drawing from your shoulder for confident linework for the most part. I'm seeing a tiny bit of wobble here and there so just make sure you are always ghosting your lines and drawing from your shoulder with confidence. Your box constructions are decent for the most part but there are some wonky ones here and there so the 250 box challenge will be a great next step for you.

Overall this was a pretty good submission that showed a nice deal of growth. Your lines and ellipses are both coming along well but keep practicing those ellipses during your warmups. I think you are understanding most of the concepts these lessons are trying to convey fairly well. Once you get that revision submitted I'll take a look and you can most likely move on to the 250 box challenge.